Word: contentment
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...mail their creations for consideration as background images. Is screenwriting more up your alley? MTV Live will let you select characters and write dialogue for short videos. Would-be maestros can mix and submit music to serenade MTV Live presenters. The new channel will also feature exclusive content for digital cable viewers, such as live video of the Red Hot Chili Peppers performing in Moscow's Red Square...
...solar-power generators. And a technology specialist: it's his job to handle video and stills editing and encoding with a Panasonic Toughbook (a bomb-resistant little unit with a waterproof keyboard, a magnesium-alloy case and a shock-mounted hard drive). When that's done, he transmits the content via the group's satellite phones to the website team in Seattle that posts it on the site. Going live would be possible, but with the time difference between Nepal and the U.S., the size of the audience wouldn't be worth the effort. Not that it's worth...
...persuade the two largest mobile-network operators, Smart Communications and Globe Telecom, to block "malicious, profane and obscene" texting, a move that would make a text-messaging revolt like the one that unseated her predecessor more difficult. To censor chat rooms, Beijing has adopted broad guidelines that ban content that "is against the national constitution, endangers state security, reveals state secrets, sabotages unity among ethnic groups and spreads heretical ideas." In Britain, laws against terrorism now cover actions that "seriously interfere with or seriously disrupt an electronic system" such as e-mail bombs or viruses...
...merchants would prefer not to delve too deeply into all of this. They would rather just assume that their information-collection methods are O.K. and use the data as they see fit. They argue that everything would be more expensive if they couldn't use marketing information effectively: Internet content would no longer be free. Besides, they add, people know what's going on anyway and really don't mind...
Although some oversight is helpful, especially for medical or government-mandated information, I think this basic approach is wrong. Let's go back to the first principle: people have different preferences and sensitivities about the use of their personal information. Many like free content and well-targeted marketing offers. So why not let the market work? Let websites disclose their practices in an intelligible way and then let consumers choose...